MOZAMBIQUE: Mystery Massacre

Not since the My Lai atrocities came to
light in 1969 had a tiny village caused such an uproar. Father Adrian
Hastings, a British Catholic priest, alleged that Portuguese government
troops had gone on a murderous rampage in the Portuguese Mozambique
village of Wiriyamu last Dec. 16. The priest, quoting reports from
Spanish missionary priests, claimed that Portuguese soldiers killed
some 400 villagers suspected of sympathizing with Frelimo, the
Mozambique Liberation Front.

Then began the denials. Dr. Marcello Caetano, the Portuguese Prime
Minister, who was on an official visit to London, said...